I haven’t written anything about teaching ESL yet and the semester’s almost over! Therefore this post is well deserved. For those who do not know, I teach beginner listening and speaking classes at the college. One of my students, Tatiana, is literally the sweetest girl in the world. Tatiana is from the Ukraine and loves [...]

Day 6 being our last class, the students and I decided to take it easy. We spent the time having conversations, which they say really help them a lot. I also opened the floor to any questions at all they wanted to ask me. Again we battled with the concept of What time is it? [...]

It’s been a little louder at these past couple of ESL classes! Instead of my usual 3 students, others keep popping up. One of them is Mela from Ukraine. And is she a firecracker or what! She is a very outspoken, beautiful woman who definitely enjoys attention. It’s been a little hard to get the [...]

How dedicated to teaching am I? Well today I risked my life for my students! The drive to the institute takes an hour. The entire hour it was pouring. The rain was coming down so hard that the lines in the road disappeared. An entire truck disappeared if it got far enough ahead of you. [...]

Welcome! Welcome to my not-so-fancy but, will-do-just-fine classroom! And welcome to my 2nd day with the students but my FIRST day teaching on my own. I was a little disappointed though, because only 3 students attended out of the 6 that were there last time. At least they can’t blame it on my teaching– since [...]

Today was the day! Today I had the opportunity to observe the ESL class I will be teaching. I breathed a sigh of release to find out I would only be teaching a small group and not a large class. Today there were 6 in all, but class size changes frequently, give or take a [...]